A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

My kum Miroslav (see previous posts just below) has taken a picture of this lizard, which is quite common in Nigeria. This is a male (females are more drab and single-colored) and it is about 0.5 meters long (20 inches). What is the common name and the Latin name of this lizard? Please tell me in the comments:
The weekend at La Maison de Girrafes was absolutely brilliant. Henry and I could not stop talking for two straight days. We tried to elicit the End Of The Universe by starting a cycle of infinite regress by repeatedly linking to each other's blog posts, but something went wrong with our plan and, voila, you are all still alive and well, I see. Every time we walked out, the Sun started shining. As soon as we would go back inside, it would get dark and start storming, raining and hailing. Thus, the opportunities to take pictures of the entire menagerie were rare and brief, and I missed them…
Another member of the Gee menagerie:
Yes, it is possible to get non-blurry pictures of Henry's lovely dog:
More under the fold....
More under the fold...
More under the fold....
And here is the little orange prince: More pictures under the fold....
It's been ages since I posted a picture of my oldest cat, the Queen of our household:
Marbles and Orange Julius (under the fold):
Biscuit and Marbles:
Why is it that there is no way to even mention anything about sea cucumbers without giggling and the thinly-veiled sexual innuendo? Seeing them, as a kid, on the floor of the crystal-clear waters of the Adriatic sea, my thoughts mainly went toward scatological...
...taking pictures of Marbles and Orange Julius a minute ago - aren't they sweet?
These were taken the day after the pseudo-move, as soon as the cats came back from a weekend at the vet. Biscuit was hiding, but the other two explored the new environs:
On September 2nd this year go out somewhere: into your backyard, or the woods, or the bottom of the sea, and turn a rock or two or three. Take pictures of what you find underneath. Perhaps you'll find earthworms, or pillbugs, or beetles. Or a starfish. Maybe even a snake. Perhaps even a snake guarding the entrance to Dick Cheney's Undisclosed Location. If you turn a rock in Iraq and find WMDs please let us all know as that would be the biggest scoop in the history of the blogosphere (good luck with that one, though). The idea was hatched by Dave Bonta, Fred Garber and Bev Wigney. Dave…
Here (under the fold) are some pictures of the frogs from the American Museum of Natural History
...in an earthquake zone, is bad policy, I think, but Janet did it nonetheless: